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Centaur - a Four-wheeled Segway

Posted by michael on Tuesday October 12, 2004 @08:12AM from the you-can't-afford-it dept.

Mr. Protocol writes "Segway, the folks who brought you the two-wheeled wonder called the IT, have a new concept vehicle up on their website. Called Centaur, it's a four-wheeled version of the IT that pulls stable wheelies by acting like a two-wheeled IT. The movie (Windows Media or Quicktime) shows someone having far too much fun riding one."

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More consumer confidence? by jargoone · 2004-10-12 08:14 · Score: 5, Insightful

Not that everyone has the money to shell out for one of these things, but the fact that it has 4 wheels might make people less nervous about it.

It would also lead to fewer of these incidents: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technolog y/maney/2003-06-17-segway_x.htm
What's the point? by randall_burns · 2004-10-12 08:23 · Score: 4, Insightful

The wheelchair segway was significant IMHO-I had one relative that could have benefited from it. These other vehicles just aren't living up the hype. Unlike what John Doehr claimed, cities _aren't_ going to be built around these things. Most people need to get more exercise-not more toys.
Re:This is just great... by cft_128 · 2004-10-12 08:53 · Score: 4, Insightful

believe that bicycles are generally too damn cheap
Not the bikes that I like....

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Re:Awesome by Jeff+DeMaagd · 2004-10-12 08:55 · Score: 4, Insightful

Now, if they could just make it bigger, add some room for passengers, maybe some seats and a steering wheel, I could see people use them.

If this were true, a lot more people would be using golf carts.